June 18, 2005, Saturday

By MARK LANDLER and ELIZABETH BECKER; Mark Landler reported from Le Bourget, France, for this article, and Elizabeth Becker from Washington

When the Airbus A380 superjumbo jet took to the skies at the Paris Air Show, executives from Boeing crowded an observation deck here to gawk at the plane, the new flagship of a European company that is embroiled in a trade battle with Boeing. As...